Experts in: Social movements
DICKINSON, John A.
Professeur honoraire
HAMZAH, Dyala
Professeure agrégée
- Ottoman Empire
- Public space
- Social movements
- Nationalism
- Public Opinion
- Pan-Arabism
- Pan-Islamism
- Religion
- Arab renaissance
- Arab world
- Colonialism
- 18th century
- 19th century
- 20th century
- Modern Times
- Middle East
My research interests concern the processes of reform and centralization in the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire throughout the 19th century (Egypt, Syria, Iraq, North Africa), from a cultural and social perspective. The central role of the press and associations in the emergence of a public space during the Arab Renaissance and the issues of education and citizenship in the colonial and post-colonial periods are central to my research.
At the same time, my work bears on the symmetrical processes of professionalization and the popularization of Islamic expertise in the 20th century. More specifically, I am interested in the institutional and curricular development of mosque-universities such as al-Azhar, Zaytuna and Qarawiyyin, from the 18th century until their nationalization in the 1960s, and also in the legacies and uses of Islamic historiography, philosophy and law in the contemporary period, particularly in nationalism and Islamism.
My current research aims to contribute to the cultural history of Arab nationalism and to define its key institutions: volunteer associations and secret societies; scouting movements; school textbooks.
MORIN, Claude
Professeur honoraire
OWNBY, David
Professeur honoraire
- Intellectuals
- Social movements
- Religion
- China
- Modern Times
- Early Modern Times
- Taiwan
- North America
- 20th century
- 21th century
- 19th century
- Culture
- Social Movements (Political Culture, Society and Ideology)
- Ideological, Political, Economical and Social Environments of Social Transformations
- Philosophy and Ideology
- Buddhism
- State
- Classical Chinese thought
- Chinese imagery
- Socio-religious history
- Religions, identities and politics
My main research interests have to do with the history of religion in modern and contemporary China. I have worked mainly on popular groups, having conducted field research in China, Taiwan and North America. The development of the religious fact in China since the latter 19th century is extremely complex, and we cannot study popular religion without considering the aims of the Chinese government and the posture of institutionalized religions. Given the religious rebirth in China since the end of the Maoist era, even historical research on this subject is important from a contemporary point of view.
With colleagues from York University and UBC, I have also launched a new research program on contemporary intellectual life in China. The project explores the complex relations between the growing freedom of expression for intellectuals, the cultural search for an identity that will be both modern and Chinese, and the pressing need for Chinese political authorities to find a new ideological legitimacy. This program is now funded through an SSHRC Insight grant.
RAMIREZ, Bruno
Professeur émérite
- Film and history
- Emigration and immigration
- Social movements
- North America
- United States
- Canada (Québec)
- Canada
- Italy
- Immigration Policies
- 19th century
- 20th century
- Cultural politics
- Culture
- Cultural heritage
My research themes are as follows:
- Intra-continental migrations (North America) and the immigration of Italians to Quebec
- The history of cultural policies from a comparative perspective (United States/Canada/Europe)
- The history of key concepts and their uses in the social sciences and government policies (assimilation; integration; incorporation; multiculturalism; inter-culturalism; transculturalism; diversity)
- Cinematic narrations of the past (documentaries and feature films)
ROUILLARD, Jacques
Professeur émérite
- 19th century
- 20th century
- Canada (Québec)
- Early Modern Times
- Modern Times
- Social movements
TRÉPANIER, Pierre
Professeur honoraire
- Canada (Québec)
- 19th century
- 20th century
- History of ideas
- Social movements
- Intellectuals
WIERDA, Meagan
Professeure adjointe